The growing field of new technologies offers new perspectives for neurorehabilitation. Serious games are a promising solution in the rehabilitation of cognitive impairments, and they may be useful in the rehabilitation of unilateral spatial neglect. Investigators developed a rehabilitation program for visual exploration training with a serious game and investigated its efficiency. Twelve patients with unilateral spatial neglect after a right hemispheric stroke were recruited. Six patients assigned to a group received both serious game training and conventional rehabilitation, and after only conventional rehabilitation; and six patients assigned to another group received first conventional rehabilitation and then serious game training and conventional rehabilitation. The investigators compared the two groups after rehabilitation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
12
The SG rehabilitation was proposed to be played four times per week for three weeks, for a total of 12 sessions, with 15 min per session (= 60 minutes per week). Conventional rehabilitation comprised five sessions of 45 min of neuropsychological rehabilitation using classical exploration training (= 225 minutes per week).
Hôpitaux de Saint Maurice
Saint-Maurice, France
Behavioral Inattention Test (BIT)
Behavioral Inattention Test (Wilson et al., 1987) (BIT) including the first part of conventional subtests: star and letter cancellation, line crossing, figure and shape copying, line bisection and representational drawing (total score /146)
Time frame: up to 6 weeks
Catherine Bergego Scale (CBS)
CBS for therapist (Bergego et al., 1995) is based on the direct observation of the therapist in ten standardised dailylife situations. The score ranges from 0 to 30 (higher scores indicating more severe neglect).
Time frame: up to 6 weeks
Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
FIM (Minaire, 1991) is a basic indicator of patient disability. FIM is used to track the changes in the functional ability of a patient during an episode of hospital rehabilitation care.
Time frame: up to 6 weeks
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